Curtain tieback device



United States Pater CURTAIN TIEBACK DEVICE Samuel M. Scavetto, Garfield, N. J.

Application February 16, 1956, Serial No. 565,846

Claims. (Cl. 24-73) wall opening every time they are driven into the frame.

Repeated driving and removal of the devices will so enlarge any one hole in the frame as to necessitate the relocation of the tieback, thus further marring the frame and preventing the re-application of the tieback in the exact location desired.

The curtain tieback device of the invention, which is preferably made as a two-part device, has as one part thereof an attaching bracket adapted to be permanently affixed to a side member of the frame of the wall opening, and as the second curtain-holding part, in the form of a tieback loop or curtain engaging part adapted to be disengageably mounted on the bracket. The two parts of the device are removably held together by a separable snap fastener having its component parts incorporated, respectively, in the bracket and the tieback loop or curtain engaging part. Preferably, the separable fastener is of the type wherein the two parts thereof are engaged and separated by relative movement of the parts in a direction substantially normal or perpendicular to the main extents of such fastener parts. As a result, the tieback loop may be placed in final position relative to the curtain before the second part of the tieback device is engaged with the bracket thereof.

The second part of the tieback device is preferably provided with an outwardly open book engaging the tieback loop or the curtain itself, and with a flange-like member partially or wholly covering the hook, the supporting member therefor on the second part of the device, the separable fastener parts, and the attaching bracket part of the device. Usually, such flange-like member will be ornamented, to improve the appearance of the tieback device and the curtain arrangement as a whole.

The invention has among its objects the provision of a novel curtain tieback having improved appearance and ease of attachment and disengagement from the frame of a wall opening and a curtain tieback loop on the curtain itself.

The above and further objects of the invention, including economies of use and manufacture will be more readily understood by reference to the accompanying drawing showing a preferred embodiment of the curtain tieback in accordance therewith. In the drawing:

Fig. 1 is an inside front elevation of a window showing curtain tiebacks of the invention in use thereon.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged view in perspective of the parts of the device in exploded relationship, the second, curice tain tieback loop-engaging part of the device being shown tipped up away from the bracket part thereof.

Fig. 3 is a view in bottom plan of the second part of the device.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged view in horizontal section through the tieback device with the two parts thereof in engagement.

Referring to the drawing, the character 10 generally designates the frame of a window having a curtain composed of curtain halves 14 on the inside of the window. Intermediate their lengths, and somewhat below their vertical centers, each curtain half is pulled outwardly and held by similar tieback devices 15, one on each side of the window frame, engaging tieback loops 16 which extend around the respective curtain halves. The devices 15, to be explained more fully in connection with Figs. 2, 3, and 4, are supported on the left and right hand vertical members 11 and 12, respectively, of the window frame. I

Each tieback device 15 consists of a first, L-shaped sheet metal attaching bracket part 17, and a second, tieback curtain loop engaging part 19 adapted to be separably engaged with part 17. Part 17 has a first leg 20 adapted to overlie the inner face of a vertical member of the window frame and a second, shorter leg 21, at a right angle to leg 20, which lies alongside the side surface of such frame member, so as to locate member 17 at the desired distance from the corner of the member and to retain it from turning in a vertical plane about nail or screw 22 which passes through a hole in leg 20 and fastens part 17 to the window frame. Once attached to the window frame, part 17 becomes a permanent part thereof. Leg 20 has attached thereto, as by being soldered at 30, a first metal part 31 of a separable fastener adapted to secure part 19 thereto.

Part 19 of curtain tieback device 15 includes in elongated sheet metal strip body 24 having a generally straight portion 25, on the inner (as regardsv the window opening) end of which there is attached a bent wire part 26,

forming with portion 25 of the strip an outwardly open hook. The base of member 26, which has a sharpened end 27, is secured to strip 24 as by being soldered. to the rear face thereof at 29. Beyond the outer end of portion 25, strip 24 is bent so as first to extend into a short straight portion 32 offset rearwardly-from portion 25 and thence is curved forwardly to form a substantially closed loop 34.

Portion 32 carries attached to its rear face a second metal part 35, complementary to part 31, of a separable fastener. In the embodiment shown, part 31 is the male part and part 35 is the female part of a known separable fastener of the type known as a dot fastener, wherein the two parts are engaged and disengaged by relative movement of the two parts substantially normal to the main extents thereof. Part 35 centrally overlies a hole in strip portion 32 which receives the outer end of stud 36 on fastener part 31.

In use, it is ordinarily preferred to employ tieback loops, such as shown at 16, each of which extends around a curtain half and has its ends impaled on member 26. Tip 27 of such member is spaced sufficiently from fastener part 35 to allow such mounting of the ends of loop 16 thereon. It is then merely necessary, assuming that part 17 of the tieback device has been mounted at the desired location on the window frame, to slide the tieback loop lengthwise of the curtain and then to engage fastener part 35 with part 31 so as to insert stud 36 on the latter into the opening in the former. Part 19 will then be held securely on bracket member 17, and will sustain the sidewise pull thereon exerted by loop 16. When it is desired to remove the tieback, however, a pull inwardly of the room on part 19 will serve to disengage fastener parts 31 and 35, to free part 19 so that the loop 16 can be removed therefrom and/ or from around the curtain half.

For the sake of appearance, and to facilitate manipulation of part 19 of 'the device, such part is preferably'pro- 1.

vided with a flange-like member '39 which, in the main,

overlies strip 24 so as tohide it, bracket member 17,v and the fastener parts 31 and 35 from view. Preferably niember' 39'lies .generallycoaxial of fastener part 35, to facilitate engagement of the fastener parts,vand has an ornamented face inwardly of the room. Member 39 may be of cementitious material, andfmay be cast about strip 24 as an insert. Portion 25 of such strip lies generally I flush with the outer faceof member 39;loop portion'34 of-the strip is buried in such member, so that the member described a preferred embodiment of the device, it will be apparent that the device may be varied as to various details as to construction and use within the teaching of the invention. engage one or more folds of. the curtain itself directly, or .it may be modified in shape so as to embrace the whole extent of the curtain at its location. Also, in some cases, the device may be used to advantage on a door to which a curtain isxattached, or to an arch-way provided with draperies. In such instances the tieback device will be attached, respectively to the frame of the door, and to the Wall on the sides of the arch. The expression frame of an opening is meant to cover such members as wella's the outer frame of a window or door.

The invention is, therefore, to be defined by the scope of the claims appended hereto.

I claim as new the following: 7

1". A curtain tieback device comprising in combination, an attaching bracket having a fiat portion adapted to be-secured to the inner face of the frame of a window opening, a member sidewardly elongated toward the opening adapted to be connected to a curtain to be tied back, said member-having a first generally flat portion nearest the opening, and a secondportion inwardly offset from the first portion and generally ,parallel thereto, and

Thus, for example, the member 26 may.

a. releasable snapfastener .on .the bracket andrmemher for securing such parts together, said fastener comprising two confronting generally flat parts one of which is a male member having a stud normal to its main extent and the other is a female member receiving the stud, one of the fastener parts being mounted on the second portion of the elongated curtain-holding member.

2. A curtain tieback device as set out in claim 1, in which there is abent wi-re memberattached .to the inner face of the elongated curtain-holding member so as to form therewith a hook open in a direction away from the opening.

3. A curtain tieback device as set forth in claim 2, in which there is a flange-like member connected to the elongated member and overlying the releasable fastener and the elongated member throughout the main extent of the latter.

4. A curtain'iiebackedesiice as set forth in claim 5,.in

whichvtthe elongated rrrremheris continued past the seping, :a member sidewardl-y elongated toward the opening adapted tow be. connected-'10 a'curtain to be -tied "back,

said member having a first generally z'flat portion gnearesty the :opening,.a;nd':aisecond portion offset toward the" frameroftheopnningfrom the first'zportion and generally parallel thereto, and .a rteleasable..snap fastener .on the bracket and member for securing such parts together, said fastener comprising rtwo confront-ingzpants one of .which i813 male memberhavring Ea stud normal to sits .mainextent and the other is :a female, member receiving :the stud, .0116

of the fastener parts being mounted on the :second qpormm of the elongated curtain-holding memberand tthe other "being :mountedron the attaching bracket.

i References Cited in ;the file of this patent UNITE-D STATES PATENTS Liebchen Oct; 8, 1929 Caggiano "Feb. '8, 1938 

